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Following the critically acclaimed silver album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, featuring Grammy nominated single “Midnight City,” and two triumphant years of world touring, Anthony Gonzalez - who serves as M83’s musical architect, songwriter, front man and primary vocalist - returns with an artistic evolution, explaining, “I want to show different sides of me on this album. I want to come back with something more intimate, yet somehow with…less me!”

Fifh album, this is produced by Ken Colyer, who has also produced Sigur Ros and The Cocteau Twins. This album takes the beautiful sounds the band are renowned for, but adds shorter, more structured songs into the mix too.

Minna Choi’s music inhabits an alternative universe, a place where sound is unfettered by limiting categories, free to drift between rock, pop, classical, electronic and ambient music, following its own impulse to explore the infinite possibilities of melody and meter. The sensibility she brings to the songs she composed for her eponymous debut album, agik*Magik, was honed by her work as the Music Director of Magik*Magik Orchestra, a group she started while attending the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2008. When she told fellow students about the session work she’d been doing at recording studios in New York City, they got excited about doing studio work themselves, so Choi put together a string orchestra that would work with people outside of the classical sphere. “We started doing session work for rock bands, hip hop artists and pop singers, to create a name for ourselves,” she says. Shortly after they got together, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood hired the orchestra to support a performance of his classical piece, “Popcorn Superhet Receiver.” The sold out concert launched their career. Since then, they’ve recorded with hundreds of artists, toured with Pop-Up Magazine scoring the live stories, contributed music to video games (Iron Man 2) and film scores (Looper, The Dam Keeper), written and performed string charts for Death Cab for Cutie’s Codes and Keys album and backed the band on stage. “Ben (Gibbard) handed me 20 songs from their back catalogue,” Choi says. “I wrote the charts and we toured with them for six weeks.”

This instrumental album will certainly appeal tofans of the aforementioned bands as well as thoseinto the classic works of Kraftwerk, Neu!, andHarmonia as well as modern Kosmiche / ambientmusic from the likes of Arp, Mountains, The Alpsand Type Records.

Cliff Martinez’s soundtrack to the cult classic film ‘Drive’ by Nicolas Winding Refn is turning 5, and to mark the anniversary, Invada Records and Lakeshore Records will co-release a limited edition version of the soundtrack, which features Martinez’s score and all other music used in the film, which includes the legendary tracks by Kavinsky, College and Desire. The soundtrack features original music by Cliff Martinez (The Lincoln Lawyer, Traffic) with Euro-synth-styled songs by Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx (“Nightcall”), The Chromatics (“Tick of the Clock”), Desire (“Under Your Spell”), College featuring Electric Youth (“A Real Hero”), and Riziero Ortolani featuring Katyna Ranieri (“Oh My Love”). Rolling Stone Magazine named Drive the No. 1 movie of 2011.

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Stunning overview of the current electronic scene by Mary Anne Hobbs. Not all dubstep either, you’ve got the jump-up Local Lad byb Wiley, the stunning 10 minute dreamscape Theory of Machines by Ben Froost among tracks by Ital Tek, Pinch and Boxcutter.

Following from his ‘double political concept album’ ‘Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time’ this album is a move towards a more simple ethic; ‘an album where each song is a separate entity, where there is no great narrative running through it.’‘Meet The Humans’ is shot through with a sense of renewal following Steve’s recent move to Brighton, swinging musically across dance, pop, folk, dub, and deep house influences. It’s a record which repeatedly returns to core themes, the possibility of others to redeem the self, the opportunity of change for the better in the individual, the joy of life and the world we inhabit, it’s arguably the most complete and direct of Steve’s long discography - eleven personal stories combined into one positive and proper whole, the sweep of the human condition written large and full of love and hope and joy.

Massive Attack return with the ‘Ritual Spirit’ EP. The EP features the return of Tricky (on ‘Take It There’) in addition to collaborations with Young Fathers (‘Voodoo In My Blood’), Roots Manuva (‘Dead Editors’) and newcomer Azekel (‘Ritual Spirit’). The EP was written and produced by Massive Attack’s Robert del Naja and long-term studio collaborator Euan Dickinson.

Another concept album from US left-field experimental electronic duo.The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast is a collection of fascinating, fractured audio and visual portraits of ten prominent gay and lesbian figures, among them writers, philosophers, filmmakers, and musicians.

Limited white vinyl edition of 500.#4 in Uncut’s "Wierdest Albums Of All Time" - March 2017 issue."..an outer space music fantasy by Joe Meek"A classic of incredibly strange music, electronica, pre Beatles Britpop, or all of the above...however you slice it, I Hear A New World was and is the masterpiece of that left field master of sound, Joe Meek...recorded as usual partly at home with secret equipment, and partly at the state of the art Lansdowne studio he pretty much designed, it is a full on spectacular action stereo extravaganza, almost unknown in British pop recordings of the time and for many years later....here beautifully remastered, and restored to its original track sequence as planned and advertised by Meek when he marketed it as an ideal stereo test recording for hi toned hifi shops....only an ep of less than half the assembled work was originally released....now here it is, on VINYL as it was meant to be heard....

THIRD ALBUM FROM THE MEMORY BAND FOLLOWING THE ’APRON STRINGS’ ALBUM FROM 2006

In a decade which has seen a wide ranging and fruitful revival of interest in folk music, Stephen Cracknell’s The Memory Band has established itself in that fine English tradition of slightly schizophrenic projects pointing in several directions at once which manage to find their place in the ever exciting independent music scene, popping up at several influential moments and though the marvels of technology finding audiences all around the world.

For all its atmospheric diversity, Anna Meredith’s ‘Varmints’, released on Moshi Moshi, is held together by her expert understanding of dynamics. “Pacing is a physical thing,” she explains. “I can feel when stuff has to happen in a track. I knew I wanted ‘Varmints’ to end privately but start confidently, have moments of privacy and moments of power and build.

Aside from sharing bills with Anna Calvi, James Blake and These New Puritans, Meredith’s dizzying CV includes being Composer In Residence for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, writing a piece for MRI scanner, soundtracking Prada’s Spring / Summer 2015 campaign, symphonies created for nursery children, music for park benches in Hong Kong and sleep-pods in Singapore.

She can now add Scottish Album Of The Year Award Winner 2016 to that list!

The AOR touches of "The English Riviera" and the 60s pop of "Love Letters" are gone, replaced by VHS funk, keytar solos, Soho disco and scratching - I shit you not, 2016 is the year Joe Mount brings scratching back. Upbeat and danceable, carefree even at its most sentimental, "Summer 08" is leftfield pop at its best, a naive hymn to uncool discos from Bethnal to Benidorm. So grab yourself a cheeky vimto and join the party.

Features collaborations with the likes of Skrillex, Zayn Malik, Diplo and Blaqstarr and is the fifth in a line of critically-acclaimed albums from the London-based artist (following Arular, Kala, /\/\ /\ Y /\ and Matangi). Featuring ‘Borders’, ‘Go Off’ and ‘Bird Song’, AIM is a thrilling kaleidoscope of global sounds at once forward-thinking, fun, provocative and totally unique - much like MIA herself.

Artist Mia Doi ToddTitle ManzanitaLabel Plug Research Mia Doi Todd may or may not be a new name to you – though she’s a musician and singer that’s not only already managed to work on material with artists as well respected as Dntel, Ammon Contact, Nobody and the like, but has also released a handful of albums for labels as big and scary as Columbia. “Manzanita” is her first record for Plug Research – a natural choce for an artist with an obvious of shining material from the underground. Mia Doi Todd has crafted a collection of quixotic and enigmatically arranged songs which are happy to reduce things down to piano led acoustica (’Muscle, Bone & Blood’) or draft in a full backing band to supplement her enchanting voice with the rock-steady, reggae inflected shrug of ’Casa Nova’. The Nick Drake comparison is at its most acute on the album’s foundation stone ’The Last Night of Winter’ which injects it’s leftfield folk outlook with flourishes of orchestration and a beating rhythm that is shot through with optimism whenever it threatens to become moribund. ’Manzanita’s’ opens with the fantastic Bert Jansch influenced ’The Way’ which allows Dia Todd’s heartfelt vocals to be paired with their antithesis; brooding, churning instrumentation that builds to a thrilling conclusion, whilst ’What If We Do’ displays this album’s large crossover potential brilliantly. If you enjoyed Emilianna Torrini’s fabulous “Fisherman’s Woman” album, make sure to check this album without delay

A collaboration between Aphex Twin (Richard D. James) and µ–Ziq (Mike Paradinas), Mike & Rich - ’Expert Knob Twiddlers’ was made back in 1994. Richard edited the tracks into shape later in 1996 with his new Apple Mac computer and it was released later that year on Rephlex, the label he co-owned and which released the first two albums by µ-Ziq. This new reissued version has been carefully cleaned up, re-edited and remastered from the original DAT tapes, put into a more fitting order and, more excitingly, seven new bonus tracks and alternative versions have also been added.

The album was recorded over a few days during the 1994 World Cup, back when Richard lived in a big shared flat in Stoke Newington. Richard had tried to collaborate with a few other likeminded artists but something clicked when Mike and Rich worked together and the sessions have a unique feel; playful and at times actually drunk.

Miracle is more than the sum of its parts, Deeply, darkly psychedelic as one might anticipate but this is much closer to pop music than the two have ever encountered before. It was never discussed. It just happened. The music of Miracle is an apparition, a leap of faith, an inexplicable birth.

A long-term resident of Berlin’s electronic-undercurrent, Miwon (aka Hendrik Kroz) was an initiator of the laptop battle, a stage which allowed him to bring his breed of electronica to thirsty Berlin audiences, whilst honing his ear on the sharpest of cuts... A policy which has paid dividends on ’Pale Glitter’Opening through the opaque glow of ’Semafora’, Miwon coaxes a fog of analogue business gingerly towards some chrome-plated beats, wherein they are left to happily rattle along amongst euphoric strings and twinkly-ness galore. Next up is ’Brother Mole’, a soft-centered electronic nursery-rhyme which will be familiar to many through its inclusion on Wetherall’s Fabric mix. Heartwarming loveliness.